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The International Motor Sports Association, which sanctions a variety of roadracing competition for sports cars, sports sedans and purestock subcompact cars, has expanded its GT schedule to 11 races for. 1872, The GT class: the club's most popular division, is open to sports sedans of the Mustang‐Camaro‐Javelin type and to sports cars such as Corvette, Ferrari GTB4 and Porsche 911.

In most of the racing weekends the GT races will be supported by races for the 1400 class and‐ for “baby grand” cars. The I‐100's are open‐wheel formula cars with engines in the 100 horsepower category, and the “baby grands” are sedans in stock condition and running on street tires.

The association is in the final stages of negotiations for a national sponsor for the GT series.

The GT schedule:

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Score another coup for women in racing. Two promoters, Cheryl C. Fox and Toby L, Sampson, both of Levittown, Pa., have scheduled a midget race for June 18 on the 1⅛ kidneyshaped track of. Trenton Speedway in New. Jersey.

They say Trenton is the largest track ever used for a midget race and that they will offer the largest purse ever posted for a midget race —$20,000 plus accessory awards. The event will consist of a pair of 50‐mile heats and a trophy dash of 7½ miles.

The promoters, who use the Women's Lib designation “Ms.” before their names, are experienced in racing. Ms. Samson once raced midgets in the Middle West and Canada. Ms. Fox grew up in a racing family and is a sectetary at Trenton Speedway.

The third member of their venture is Fred Keil, former manager of the New Jersey State Fair.

The race will be co‐sanctioned, by the midget division of the United States Auto Club and the American Racing Drivers Club, an Eastern organization devoted exclusively to midget racing.

The midget is a potent machine only slightly smaller than the sprint car. Engines with overhead camshafts are limited to 114 cubic inches and stock‐block engines to 155 cubic inches.

The Northeast Ice Rading Association, one of the leading clubs in this format of motor sports, has three races remaining on its 1972 schedule.

Today's race will be conducted on Hoosic Lake at Cheshire, Mass. The other races are a six‐hour endurance event next Sunday at Pushaw Lake in Bangor, Me., and a shorter one on Feb. 27 at Chickawaukie Lake, Rockland, Me.

Competition is divided into three classes — rear‐wheel drive; front‐wheel drive with engine of 1,275 cubic centimeters and up, and frontwheel drive with engine of 1,275 cc and under. Engines are limited to six cylinders and wheelbase to 112 inches.